拥有模因的女人

拉斐尔·弗莱曼（Rafael Flaiman）发现了一个戴着浅蓝色西装外套的朋友，看上去有点过时。他给那个家伙划了一点。

At a backyard barbecue in San Pedro, Argentina, last May, Rafael Flaiman spotted a friend wearing a light blue blazer that looked a little too snazzy for the occasion. He needled the guy a bit.

去年五月，在阿根廷圣佩德罗的后院烧烤店，拉斐尔·弗莱曼（Rafael Flaiman）发现了一个戴着浅蓝色西装外套的朋友，看上去有点过时。他给那个家伙划了一点。

“What’s with the jacket?” Mr. Flaiman asked.

“夹克怎么了？”弗莱曼先生问。

“La China pays,” the friend replied, with a triumphant smile.

“洛杉矶中国付款，”朋友笑着回答。

La China? Mr. Flaiman grew up in San Pedro, a struggling riverside town of 70,000, and for 16 years he’s been a reporter at La Opinión, the local newspaper. But he’d never heard of someone named La China — Spanish for the Chinese woman — and had no idea why she’d bought a nifty new blazer for his buddy.

中国？弗莱曼（Flaiman）先生在苦苦挣扎的河滨小镇圣佩德罗（San Pedro）长大，16年来，他一直是当地报纸LaOpinión的记者。但是他从未听说过一个名叫中国的人 - 西班牙妇女 - 不知道为什么她为他的伙伴买了一个漂亮的新西装外套。

A handful of the 20 people at the barbecue, it turned out, knew all about this mysterious figure and were eager to explain the singular way she’d earned them money.

事实证明，在烧烤的20个人中有少数了解了这个神秘的人物，并渴望解释她为他们赚钱的单一方式。

Every weeknight at about 9 p.m., they said, La China turned up on the Telegram channel of a crypto currency exchange called RainbowEx. There, she texted instructions to buy some type of crypto — invariably an obscure and thinly traded one, known in the industry as a memecoin — at a particular price. The same message said to sell the coin when it reached a certain, higher price, which it always did soon after.

他们说，每个下午9点左右，洛杉矶中国出现在一个名为Rainbowex的加密货币兑换的电报频道上。在那里，她发短信说明了购买某种类型的加密货币的说明 - 总是以一种特定的价格以一种晦涩难懂的交易，在业内被称为Memecoin。同样的信息说，当硬币达到一定的价格时，就会出售硬币，这总是在不久之后做到的。